Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Grocery Store Calls Police To Guard Discarded Food" video.

  1. “ I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. “ — George Orwell
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  2. The Ayn Randian Objectivist dystopia is here
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  3. @GG capitalism is a statist system of the capitalist class working with government. I’m an egoist and free market anarchist which is why I can say Rand was a capitalist state apologist. Proper libertarianism has always been socialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-hierarchy. Egoism is also a philosophy of the ego, the individual, but it recognizes just as there is a personal freedom there is a social freedom. Max Stirner influenced anarchists and libertarian communists, Rand is an influence to social darwinian capitalists that believe there is a hierarchy and some individuals are superior. The kind of individualism that leads to the cult of personality, and rigid social orders. The I do appreciate her defense of creativity and the arts. But as El-P said “ I got a Vonnegut punch for your Atlas Shrugged”
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  4. @GG Rand wasn’t a libertarian she didn’t get along with them. Yes there are similar aspects but Objectivism is altogether a moral philosophy and way of life that rejects all subjective emotions in favor of an ethics of rugged individualism. But the individualism fostered by Objectivism is a social darwinian one of some being superior and more deserving than others and so it’s a belief in hierarchy. Rand was anti-government but not anti-statist. She had no analytical criticism of States, ruling classes, and the capitalist social order. She made the mistake of conflating market economy with capitalism. Which is ahistorical and just following the mainstream academia. Free markets isn’t synonymous with capitalism (private property, wage labor), and there is a libertarian and radical free market socialism. Markets aren’t incompatible with socialism. In fact there is a direct link with classical liberalism and libertarian socialism. From Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hodgskin to Josiah Warren, Pierre J Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker etc...
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  5. @GG negligence laws are capitalist laws is what I’m saying. The State makes the laws and regulations for the ruling capitalist class and their interests. Again you’re talking to an anarchist, doesn’t get more anti-government. This is just all part of the capitalist state. Capitalists, the idle rich, are only able to profit from the labors of the industrious because they are protected by unfair advantages, embodied in law, that allow them to escape the natural outcomes and pressures of genuine, full-fledged competition.
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